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Google Releases Gmail Notifier

Posted by michael on from the service-with-a-smile dept.

Philipp Lenssen writes "After several unofficial, screen-scraping Gmail utilities, Google now released the official Gmail Notifier (Beta) for Windows. It will sit in the Windows tray, alerting you of new emails in your account (if you are lucky enough to have one already). Additionally, the Gmail Notifier can connect 'mailto:'-links in web pages to Gmail."

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  1. Why not a small Java app? by tliet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I mean, come on, Win32 only?

    1. Re:Why not a small Java app? by random_culchie · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I don't know why the parent was marked a troll because its a valid question.

      The fact is for close integration with the operating system (like putting stuff in the tray in windows) is impossible to do with out using API's that break portability.

      If you break portability what the point in doing it in java the first place?